For those of you who don’t know TED, it is a series of lectures about any and all topics, ranging from science to sociology to entertainment. A few years back, J.J. Abrams gave a great talk about mystery and it looks like TED’s connection to the entertainment industry did not stop there. Continue Reading >>

The veil of secrecy surrounding 20th Century Fox’s great hope for next summer, Prometheus, has been dense enough to allow the misinformation-spreading monkeys of the internet to have a veritable field day. However, given that seeing is believing, there can be no doubting the veracity of the newest Prometheus materials to surface, they being a fresh batch of high-resolution pictures. Continue Reading >>

Difficult to argue anything other than The Dark Knight Rises stands alone as the most keenly-anticipated movie of 2012, although if that third Nolan-helmed Bat-ravaganza does have a nearest rival then it is surely Prometheus, the film which marks Sir Ridley Scott’s return to the Alien universe. Secrecy surrounding Scott’s new movie is tight as a lifebelt on a sumo wrestler, but a fresh synopsis has just been unveiled. Continue Reading >>

Prometheus, for anyone who’s had their head stuck in a bucket of water for the last year, is the new Ridley Scott sci-fi movie, which is apparently not quite a prequel to his Alien, but is set within the same cosmos and continuity as that 1979 genre classic. A new cast member has just signed up, and a spoiler-tastic synopsis has been leaked. Continue Reading >>

Writer Damon Lindelof, he of Lost co-creator fame, shed some light on the prequel-status of his current project, former Alien prequel Prometheus. Originally a direct prequel to Alien, to be helmed by that film’s returning director Ridley Scott, Prometheus became an original movie during its development, or mostly original. Sort of. Here’s what Lindelof had to say Continue Reading >>

There is not much solid news about Ridley Scott upcoming Alien prequel, it doesn’t even have a proper title yet. What we do know is that C20th Fox has accepted and are very pleased with Damon “head writer on Lost” Lindelof’s first draft screenplay for the film.

At this point there is a high level of secrecy surrounding the project, but what we do know is that the film will be set around 35 years before the original Alien. One of the reasons that Fox is so pleased with Lindelof’s screenplay is that it would not need a huge budget for them to make it. It has also been suggested that Fox are toying with idea of making Alien with a PG-13 rating in mind and apparently Lindelof’s screenplay fits in with this. Continue Reading >>

I don’t think it’s bad or biased journalism to say that anyone who has seen the film Alien and doesn’t think that it’s the greatest science fiction film ever made should be ceremonially tortured Continue Reading >>